Category: Daily Cryptic

Enough to keep you honest here, I think. It took me 25 minutes, so a bit over par for a Monday. 

An early SNITCH rating of 93.

  I don’t think this was all that hard, but it took me the best part of 26 minutes. I spent quite a lot agonising (unnecessarily as it turns out) over the three little letters … Read more “28738 All the way round single handed”

By Wednesday standards I thought this was a walk in the park.

An enjoyable solve with some nice touches of humour.

Well, easy Monday is back, and I don’t have much to say.    If you are an experienced solver, you won’t find much to delay you here, and even novices may do well.

38:00, with the last four or five clues taking 10–15 minutes! I worked on this one with my seven-year-old son, who had several good ideas, and was racing alongside me, trying to figure out how these things work.

The puzzle started easily enough with 1 Across, but I got bogged down on the right-hand side towards the end and had to grind it out a letter at a time. Still, I imagine others will find this on the easier side.

Time taken: 14:31. A little bit longer than my average, and I don’t think there’s anything too obscure, but I had a hard time getting started on this one, I think in a first reading … Read more “Times 28732 – all day I dream about”

A classic medium difficulty puzzle today, featuring just about every kind of clue within the setter’s toolbox.

An enjoyable puzzle.